 | William Torrey Harris, Andrew Jackson Rickoff, Mark Bailey - 1879 - 508 pages
...the time of the settlement. 10. What seemed particularly odd to Rip was, that though these folks were evidently amusing themselves, yet they maintained...along the mountains like rumbling peals of thunder. 11. As Rip and his companion approached them, they suddenly desisted from their play, and stared at... | |
 | 1880 - 444 pages
...at the lime of the settlement. What seemed particularly odd to Rip was, that though these folks were evidently amusing themselves, yet they maintained...they suddenly desisted from their play, and stared at him with such fixed, statue-like gaze, and such strange, uncouth, lack-lustre countenances, that his... | |
 | Henry William Dulcken - 1880 - 508 pages
...was, that though these folks were evidently amusing themselves, yet they maintained the gravest laces, the most mysterious silence, and were, withal, the...along the mountains like rumbling peals of thunder: As Kip and his companion approached them, they suddenly desisted from their play, and stared at him with... | |
 | 1880 - 516 pages
...at the lime of the settlement. What seemed particularly odd to Rip was, that though these folks were evidently amusing themselves, yet they maintained...scene but the noise of the balls, which, whenever they wert rolled, echoed along the mountains like rumbling peals of thunder. As Rip and his companion approached... | |
 | mrs. William Thomas Greenup - 1880 - 328 pages
...themselves. On a level spot in the centre was a company of odd-looking personages playing at ninepins. As Rip and his companion approached them they suddenly desisted from their play, and stared at him with such a fixed, statue-like gaze, and such strange, uncouth, lack-lustre countenances, that... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1880 - 460 pages
...the time of the settlement78. What seemed particularly odd to Rip was, that though these folk were evidently amusing themselves , yet they maintained...gravest faces, the most mysterious silence, and were withal79 the most melancholy party of pleasure he had ever witnessed. Nothing interrupted the stillness... | |
 | Granville series - 1881 - 376 pages
...the time of the settlement. o was, that though these folks were evidently amusing themselves, j'et they maintained the gravest faces, the most mysterious...along the mountains like rumbling peals of thunder. 28. As Rip and his companion approached them, they suddenly desisted25 from their play and stared at... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1881 - 342 pages
...sweet will. — Wordsworth. 6. What seemed particularly odd to Rip was, that though these folks were evidently amusing themselves, yet they maintained...melancholy party of pleasure he had ever witnessed. — Irving. , 7. Presently my soul grew stronger; Hesitating then no longer, "Sir," said I, "or madam,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1882 - 1002 pages
...at the time of the settlement. What seemed particularly odd to Rip was, that though these folks were evidently amusing themselves, yet they maintained...they suddenly desisted from their play, and stared at him with such fixed statue-like gaze, and such strange, uncouth, lack-lustre countenances, that his... | |
 | Gleanings - 1882 - 692 pages
...at the time of the settlement. What seemed particularly odd to Rip was, that though these folks were evidently amusing themselves, yet they maintained...they suddenly desisted from their play, and stared at him with such fixed statue-like gaze, and such strange, uncouth, lack-lustre countenances, that his... | |
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What seemed particularly odd to Rip was, that though these folks were evidently amusing themselves, yet they maintained the gravest faces, the most mysterious silence, and were, withal, the most melancholy party of pleasure he had ever witnessed. Nothing... 
